Poppy by Austin Hummell "Taut with the voice of many close-held wisdoms, Austin Hummell's POPPY is laced with a brilliant restraint and an odd humility. He traps the feral, injured thing and tames it just enough to examine the damage, then sets it back again, free. Hummell is a master of extremity, and of beauty too. -- Lucie Brock-Broido

All I Can Truly Deliver by Matt Vadnais "There is the world and then there is the world. In his 'Cover Stories,' Vadnais uncovers the paradox of 'realistic' fiction. One need not go out and bring 'em back alive when one has the more inventive terrain of the library." - Michael Martone